Longer hospital stay, more complications, and increased mortality but substantially improved function after knee replacement in older patients: A study of 3,144 primary unilateral total knee replacements

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Total knee replacement (TKR) is being increasingly performed in elderly patients, yet there is little information on specific requirements and complication rates encountered by this group. We assessed whether elderly patients undergoing TKR had different length of stay, requi...

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Publicado no:Acta Orthop
Main Authors: Maempel, Julian F, Riddoch, Fraser, Calleja, Neville, Brenkel, Ivan J
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado em: Informa Healthcare 2015
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Knee
Acesso em linha:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4513600/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25885004
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3109/17453674.2015.1040304
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